Leviticus 8:1–30

The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

²“^aTake Aaron and his sons with him, and the ^bgarments and ^cthe anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread,

³and assemble all the congregation at the doorway of the tent of meeting.”

⁴So Moses did just as the Lord commanded him. When the congregation was assembled at the doorway of the tent of meeting,

⁵Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded to do.”

⁶Then ^aMoses had Aaron and his sons come near and ^bwashed them with water.

⁷He ^aput the tunic on him and girded him with the sash, and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the artistic band of the ephod, ¹with which he tied it to him.

⁸He then placed the ¹breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put ^2athe Urim and the Thummim.

⁹He also placed the turban on his head, and on the turban, at its front, he placed ^athe golden plate, the holy crown, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁰Moses then took ^athe anointing oil and anointed the ¹tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.

¹¹He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to ^aconsecrate them.

¹²Then he poured some of the ^aanointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him.

^13aNext Moses had Aaron’s sons come near and clothed them with tunics, and girded them with sashes and bound ¹caps on them, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁴Then he brought ^athe bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.

¹⁵Next ¹Moses slaughtered it and took the blood and with his finger ^aput some of it around on the horns of the altar, and purified the altar. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

¹⁶He also ^atook all the fat that was on the entrails and the ¹lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat; and Moses offered it up in smoke on the altar.

^17aBut the bull and its hide and its flesh and its refuse he burned in the fire outside the camp, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁸Then he presented ^athe ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

¹⁹¹Moses slaughtered it and sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

²⁰When he had cut the ram into its pieces, Moses ^aoffered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke.

²¹After he had washed the entrails and the legs with water, Moses ^aoffered up the whole ram in smoke on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire to the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²²Then he presented the second ram, ^athe ram of ¹ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

²³¹Moses slaughtered it and took some of its blood and ^aput it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

²⁴He also had Aaron’s sons come near; and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. Moses then ^asprinkled the rest of the blood around on the altar.

²⁵He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the ¹lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right thigh.

^26aFrom the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened cake and one cake of bread mixed with oil and one wafer, and placed them on the portions of fat and on the right thigh.

²⁷He then ^aput all these on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons and presented them as a wave offering before the Lord.

²⁸Then Moses ^atook them from their hands and offered them up in smoke on the altar with the burnt offering. They were an ordination offering for ^ba soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire to the Lord.

²⁹Moses also took ^athe breast and presented it for a wave offering before the Lord; it was ^bMoses’ portion of the ram of ordination, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³⁰So Moses ^atook some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he consecrated Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.